Parker, who is becoming an authority on the drama immediately preceding Shakespeare, considers critical theory, the New Testament, and Christian theology, especially Luther, his fields of expertise. His doctoral dissertation, God Among Thieves: Marxs Christological Theory of Value and the Literature of the English Reformation, won the Diane Hunter Prize for the best dissertation submitted in English at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. During his five years of award-winning teaching at Harvard, Parker completed a book covering the transition from medieval to Renaissance drama, titled The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe. His other publications include Barabas and Charles I (forthcoming); What a Piece of Work is Man: Shakespearean Drama as Marxian Fetish, the Fetish as Sacramental Sublime (2004) and The Promise of History (2002). EDUCATION: B.A., University of Michigan M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania